ABOUT THE PSYCHOTHERAPY OF ADLER

Alfred Adler was born in a suburb of Vienna, the son of a Jewish grain merchant. He became a medical doctor and was one of the first to take a serious interest in the theories of Sigmund Freud, recognizing that they opened up a new phase in the development of psychiatry and psychology. He joined rather than adherence to the strict scientific principles of the Freudians. He died in 1937, while on a lecture tour of Scotland, and his name is bracketed with those of Freud and Jung as one of the three great fathers of modern psychotherapy.

The generation of experience 1.1 The mind-body-processing of experience 1.2 The experience of co-movement and affect attunement 1.3 The experience of wholeness 2. The intersubjective development of the life style 3. The Interaction of life styles and the meeting of therapist and patient REFERENCES The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler Alfred Adler Studienausgabe (Study Edition) Adler's writings Scientific Literature PREFACE This E-Book is a revised edition of my introduction to the third volume of the German Alfred Adler Study Edition 1 'Persönlichkeitstheorie, Psychopathologie, Psychotherapie' (Adler, 2010). A new chapter has been added: "The relational dimension of Individual Psychology". The starting point of Alfred Adler's psychotherapeutic theory is well documented in his major work "The Neurotic Character" (Adler/Stein, 1912a/2002a) 2. The further elaboration is made accessible particularly in the third volume (Adler, 2010a) of the German Alfred Adler Study Edition and in Henry Stein's "The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler" (Volume 1-9). Substantial aspects can also be taken from "Der Sinn des Lebens" (Adler, 1933b). In summary, the following concepts present the essentials of the development of Adler's theory: the compensation of inferiority feeling and the concept of community feeling anchored in emotional experience, in body and mind and in the philosophy of life. Many influences, impulses and stimulations contributed to the production of this book. I would like to thank all my colleagues who encouraged my individual psychological development. Conversations with my partner, a psychoanalyst and a researcher of Master-Eckhart's writings, Karl Heinz Witte, enriched and inspired me. I myself have translated the German version of this e-book and owe heartfelt thanks to Caroline Murphy for her supervising and correcting my English. Also, I want to thank Corina Gogalniceanu, Erik Mansager, a Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapist, and Paola Prina-Cerai, a member of the editorial board of the UK Adlerian Year Book, for their interest and support. And finally, I want to thank my lector Ulrike Rastin for her kind cooperation and helpfulness. of inferiority must be compensated for. Adler found a general principle of human life in this compensation, which reveals the existential approach in his dynamic. For him, the individual creates unconscious conceptions of him-or herself, how he or she wants to be, in order to be able to live in this world. 8 In his early writings, the compensation is called "the masculine protest" and in "The Neurotic Character" (Adler/Stein, 1912a), it appears as "the will to power" and "the striving for personal superiority". The masculine protest is only mentioned twice after this, in two articles dating from 1930 (Adler 1930n, pg. 373) 9 and 1931 (Adler/Stein, 1931n, pp. 21-24). It would not be anything other than "the ascertainment of a striving for power compelled by social underestimation and undervaluation of women in our culture" (Adler, 1930n, p. 382). "The will to power" is no longer mentioned in the following articles. Adler did not give up this concept, but he changed the name into the terms "striving for superiority", for "godlikeness" and, starting in 1926, into "striving for overcoming and perfection". Adler's teaching of neurosis was presented in his major work "The Neurotic Character" (Adler/Stein, 1912a) in its final version and never changed its fundamental structure after that. Adler first described the neurotic form of the striving for compensation, and then, starting in 1926, the human condition in general. 1.1 The Neurotic Form of Compensation-The Inferiority-Compensation-Dynamic This chapter includes topics that Adler regarded as essential. They were already discussed in Adler's major work in 1912 and were again and again depicted and expanded throughout his life. These topics describe the neurotic life style and are to be understood from Adler's holistic view and from his fundamental unconscious dynamic that he later called the "dual dynamic". The topics are organ inferiority, psychic inferiority, fiction, finality, personality ideal, compensation, unity of personality, will to power, individuality, subjective thinking and feeling, conscious and unconscious, experience of infancy and goal-orientation, creative power, body and psyche. 8 It would be interesting to examine the link between these unconscious conceptions and Melanie Klein's concept of unconscious phantasy (Klein 1944/1975, p. 311) or Barangers' concept of the unconscious phantasy structuring the "dynamic field" (2009). 9 1930n: This paper is not included in Stein's edition.

The Development of Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology. Theory of Personality, Psychopathology and Psychotherapy., 2019

The intention of this book is to give an overview of Adler's fundamental ideas tracing the develpment of his theory of psychotherapy during the years betwwen 1912 and 1937: the compensation of inferiority feeling and the founding of the concept of community feeling in emotional experience, in body and mind and in the philosphy of life.

The Journal of Individual Psychology, 2015

The Study and Report of Adler Theory Cansu Ertan Department of Psychology, Gediz University

The Journal of Individual Psychology, 2015

Alfred Adler's collected clinical works were made available to English speaking therapists long after those of Freud and Jung. This review offers brief overviews of each volume and the clinical import of the material found within.

Upon discovering the Socratic method in Plato's writings Benjamin Franklin wrote: I was charm'd with it, adopted it, dropt my abrupt contradictions and positive argumentation, and put on the humble inquirer and doubter . This paper will provide a brief overview of the art of Socratic "style" questioning, as used by Alfred Adler, Alexander Mueller, and Sophia de Vries. Its purpose is to re-awaken a clinical interest in Adler's original, creative therapeutic approach.

Clinical Social Work Journal, 2021

The work of Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology arguably applies to contemporary social work practice and education. The tenets of Individual Psychology are reviewed in the context of a historical sketch of Adler's work as a medical doctor, psychoanalyst, and colleague of Freud. His eventual divergence from psychoanalysis to begin his own psychological and education movement which focused on social reform is emphasized. Individual Psychology is examined in detail including original case examples demonstrating his influence on and compatibility with contemporary social work theories. Empirical evidence is provided supporting present-day application of his theory. Adler serves as a much-needed example of a professional who successfully and simultaneously advanced both the micro and macro world of mental health. Adler's contribution deserves to be explicitly included in social work curricula.

Adler: Individual Psychology Adler's individual psychology presents an optimistic view of people while resting heavily on the notion of social interest, that is, a feeling of oneness with all humankind. Because of this breach in beliefs, the relationship between Freud and Adler was tenuous. Freud saw all human motivation reduced to sex and aggression while Adler saw people as being motivated mostly by social influences and the striving for superiority or success. Freud assumed that people have little or no choice in shaping their personality whereas Adler believed that people are largely responsible for who they are. Freud's assumption that present behavior is caused by past experiences was directly opposed to Adler's notion that present behavior is shaped by people's view of the future. Freud placed very heavy emphasis on unconscious components of behavior while Adler believed that psychologically healthy people are aware of what they are doing and why they are doing it.